Byju’s India CEO out; ShareChat valuation drops 60%Byju’s India CEO Arjun Mohan has resigned after just six months in the job. Founder Byju Raveendran will fill in the role for now. This and...
15 Apr, 2024, 07.41 PM IST
Gen Z and millennials constituted over 70% of monthly active users on ShareChat this yearA total of 287 million audio chat room sessions were hosted in a month. Further, it said a total of 14 billion minutes of audio was live-st...
15 Dec, 2023, 08.38 PM IST
Social-first content marketplace Pep secures $2.5 million from India Quotient, othersThe mobile-centric content marketplace, which was founded earlier this year, aims to democratise content across various formats and categor...
09 Oct, 2023, 04.46 PM IST
TikTok copycats on a hot tin roof: why Indian short video apps have pivoted, merged or simply disappearedThe average monthly active users (MAUs) of these apps have declined year-on-year, and so have their app installs, according to data sourced...
23 Jul, 2023, 11.06 AM IST
Interview | Focus is on profitability, growth at all costs never sustainable: ShareChat CEOThe Bengaluru-based firm, backed by Twitter and Snap Inc, has cut its cash burn down by a third compared to the same time last year, ShareC...
22 Feb, 2023, 11.43 AM IST
ShareChat’s virtual gifting feature generates $50 million annuallyThe local language social media network, owned by Mohalla Tech, has over 180 million monthly active users in the country. It launched the i...
07 Oct, 2022, 12.38 PM IST
Karnataka and Maharashtra top chattiest states in India: StudyMaharashtra landed at the second position. The state was followed by Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Telangana. The study evaluated every stat...
19 Aug, 2022, 12.50 PM IST
Shots fired in BharatPe saga; Flipkart goes liveBharatPe’s controller Madhuri Jain, who is also cofounder Ashneer Grover’s wife, has sent a letter to A&M saying she is considering legal a...
11 Feb, 2022, 01.30 PM IST
China's Tech Crackdown: The Great FallWe take a closer look at the fallout -- and the mind-boggling numbers -- from China's crackdown.
31 Jul, 2021, 09.03 AM IST
Top 10 TikTokers signup with apps vying for short-video crownNine of the top 10 creators on TikTok, which democratised fame for small-town Indians, are now based in Mumbai
25 May, 2021, 01.32 PM IST
Run outFrom Kangana Ranaut being permanently suspended from Twitter, to WhiteHat Jr withdrawing its defamation lawsuit and startups being roped in...
04 May, 2021, 07.46 PM IST
'Let's do a Clubhouse', India's startup leaders sayElon Musk's chat with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev triggered a stampede for Clubhouse. Now, the audio-only, and invite-only, social network is ...
04 Feb, 2021, 01.55 PM IST
ETtech Morning Dispatch on Feb. 4, 2021: Twitter's legal jeopardy, Amazon India after Jeff BezosIndia warns Twitter over 'Farmer Genocide' hashtag. Jeff Bezos' exit won't mar Amazon's India plans. Clubhouse is gaining traction among In...
04 Feb, 2021, 10.05 AM IST
Coronavirus infodemic in its second stage: Fact checkersIn India, fact-checkers tell ET, the coronavirus infodemic is now in its second wave of sorts (the first one was China-focused in January),...
19 Mar, 2020, 08.16 AM IST
TikTok, TikTok! A Chinese bomb in Indian app spaceWith risqué humour and raunchy content, video apps pose a big risk for pre-teens & adolescents.
30 Nov, 2018, 08.08 AM IST
How startups are building business models around challenges posed by smaller marketsEntrepreneurs are realising there is huge untapped potential in India’s many underserved markets and are coming up with technology and busi...
04 Aug, 2017, 12.11 AM IST